The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-10-13
HOME.MAKING.

Why and How it Should be . Co-Opers-
tive Business.
Not every woman Is born to be Q
housekeeper. While the world stands
there will be women to paint, to sing, to
teach, to write, and women to make crazy
quilts-idle women and women of bust
ness, wise women and foolish women,
beauties and drudges, old maids and
mothers, and women good for nothing
under the sun. There will be art galle-
ries and printing shops, schools and fac
tories, homes and hotels, bathrooms and
churches, theatres and libraries, business
houses and club-rooms. houses to suit all
occupations and women to suit all occu-
pations. The house, the woman and the
work should all fit.
Home-making must be cooperative
business. The responsibility of it does
not devolve entirely on the woman. It
is something no woman can do alone. It
is the husband that gives tone to the
dwelling. A good fatherly man that likes
petting and loves to pet others fills the
house with love. The morose man who
self up in his selfishness and scares his
family away from him, invites into his
| dwelling the train of evil humors that
| follow his own ill-nature. The mother
may try to do her part faithfully; but II
| she has to be hypocrite to her children,
| in order to shield her husbands faults,
the home is q mockery and the memory
| of 1t pain.
In matters of propriety and manners
it is hopeless unless the twain be like
minded. The woman may urge upon
her children the observance OF good
manners, but If their father persists
in doing ill-mannered things every good
lesson to the children is q reproach to
him. In material matters as well, nc
woman can keep house unless her hus
band lets her. If she has to beg like a
pauper for every dollar, she will have
only q contracted view of the domestic
horizon, and the need of the moment
will absorb the dollar. II the husband
holds the pocketbook snap under his
thumb it will be impossible for the
wife to be q good wife. The woman
must be made responsible she must
have an outlook; she must have a
chance. Solomon gives US . picture OF
| his ideal woman, and she has her hus-
bands financial confidence. She 10 q
woman with plans and resources and
means to work with. Her husband trusts
her; she plants vineyard; she buys q
field when she has considered 1t sht
works willingly with her hands, but sht
does not abuse herself; she makes her
self strong and strengthens her arms
An honest trader, she looks to see thai
what she sells is good; economical, she
can afford to be charitable, and sht
stretches out her hand to the poor. She
does not wait for tramps to come beg
ging. She does not forget her own ap
pearance, but sees to 1t that she has thu
finest of clothing. Her husband cooper
ates with her In the maintenance Of he
state. and he ID known In the gates ant
is himself one Of the dignitafies. Hel
speech shows wisdom and the law Of he
tongue 10 to speak kindnew; she look
to the ways OF her house; she 10 not q
busy with her boarding and sewing, o
reading or dressing, or buying or selling
that she has not time to look after th
ways Of her husband and children. He
children bless her in their hearts and he
husband praises her; he tells her for he
sake all women are good in his eyes. bu
she excels them all.
And Solomon sums It all up In th
wise counsel: 'Give her Of the fruits o
her hands and ut her own works prais
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